Random musings on history, politics, and more

It seems that Joe Lieberman’s campaign are unmitigated cheapskates, which has led to some unfortunate consequences – namely, that their fly-by-night webhost’s software (Cpanel/WHM, yech) has suspended the campaign website for exceeding it’s bandwidth. Um, yeah, you think?

They’re spending $15 per month, apparently, to host their website and email. Okay, sure, that’s entirely doable, I imagine, for most candidates; but not for a Senate race with extraordinarily strong national interest, and certainly not right around the actual election itself.

If you know what you’re doing, $50 per month gets you a nice lower-end dedicated server and several dozen times the bandwidth that $15 gets you. Failing that, as Kos points out in the link above, once you see that your shared hosting is going to be a problem, there are any number of companies that will be all to happy to take quite modest amounts of your money and get you back up and running on a dedicated server, with no technical expertise required on your end. It’s not rocket science, but again and again idiots keep making stupid decisions and getting burnt by them.